Collaborators
Section of Cancer Surveillance (CSU)
The Section of Cancer Surveillance (CSU) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Maihan Abdullah, Marym Ramzia Mohammady, Afghanistan; Graciela Abriata, Betty Carballo, Florencia Moreno, Roberto Pradier, Argentina; Joanne Aitken, Katina D’Onise, Jeff Dunn, Gail Garvey, Suzanne Moore, David Roder, Hanna Tervonen, David Whiteman, Australia; Nelly Enwerem-Bronson, Luca Li-Bassi, Austria; Nabila Purno, Bangladesh; Marc Arbyn, Belgium; Ugyen Tshomo, Bhutan; Marianna Camargo, Walter Zoss, Brazil; Monirath Hav, Cambodia; James Brierley, Ophira Ginsburg, Mary Gospodarowicz, Prabhat Jha, Brian O’Sullivan, Juergen Rehm, Canada; Wanqing Chen, China; Luis Eduardo Bravo, Esther de Vries, Constanza Pardo, Claudia Uribe, Colombia; Leticia Fernández, Cuba; Marilys Corbex, Gerda Engholm, Hans Storm, Denmark; Patricia Cueva, Ecuador; Ibithal Fadhil, Egypt; Luisa Cikamatana, Fiji; Jacqueline Clavel, Brigitte Lacour, Gwenn Menvielle, France; Peter Kaatsch, Germany; Eleni Petridou, Greece; Annette David, Guam; Rajesh Dikshit, Prashant Mathur, Rama Ranganathan, Rajamaram Swaminathan, India; Kazem Zendehdel, Islamic Republic of Iran; Roberto Zanetti, Italy; Omari Nimri, Jordan; Elena Ten, Kyrgyzstan; Azizah Manan, Malaysia; Karima Bendahou, Morocco; Soe Aung, Soe Myat, Kaung Myat Shwe, Myanmar; Ranjeeta Subedi, Nepal; Jan Willem Coebergh, Bart Kiemeney, Sabine Siesling, The Netherlands; Sunia Foliaki, Diana Sarfati, New Zealand; Bjørn Møller, Giske Ursin, Elisabete Weiderpass, Norway; Laudico Adriano, Rica Lumague, The Philippines; Min Kyung, Hee Young Shin, Republic of Korea; Filipina Amosa-Lei Sam, Samoa; Peter Hesseling, South Africa; Eshani Fernando, Suraj Perera, Sudath Samaraweera, Sri Lanka; Paul Dickman, Lars Hjorth, Sweden; Robert Jakob, Colin Mathers, Gretchen Stevens, Julie Torode, Andreas Ullrich, Switzerland; Malcolm Moore, Donsuk Pongnikorn, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Thailand; Glennis Andall-Brereton, Sarah Quesnel-Crooks, Trinidad and Tobago; Sultan Eser, Murat Gultekin, Turkey; Anton Ryzhov, Ukraine; David Conway, Majid Ezzati, Paul Lambert, Max Parkin, Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Andrew Renehan, Brian Rous, Mark Rutherford, Linda Sharp, Charles Stiller, Paolo Vineis, United Kingdom; Enrique Barrios, Carina Musetti, Uruguay; Hoda Anton-Culver, Brenda Edwards, Susan Devesa, Lindsay Frazier, Ahmedin Jemal, Katherine McGlynn, Angela Mariotto, Mona Saraiya, Silvana Luciani, Lynn Ries, Lisa Stevens, Jon Wakefield, Kevin Ward, USA; Bui Duc Tung, Tran Thanh Huong, Viet Nam.
Section of Evidence Synthesis and Classification (ESC)
The IARC Monographs Group (IMO) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Working Group members Volume 115: Mohamed A. Abdallah, United Kingdom; Russell C. Cattley, USA; Alan Ducatman, USA; June K. Dunnick, USA; Kevin W. Hanley, USA; Keith Houck, USA; Gaku Ichihara, Japan; Charles William Jameson, USA; Heiko Udo Käfferlein, Germany; Hans Kromhout, The Netherlands; Igor Linhart, Czech Republic; M. Matilde Marques, Portugal; Ronald Melnick, USA; Franklin E. Mirer, USA; Stephen Nesnow, USA; Tetsuo Nomiyama, Japan; Kumiko Ogawa, Japan; Avima M. Ruder, USA; J. Michael Sanders, USA; Kyle Steenland, USA; Martin Van den Berg, The Netherlands; R. Thomas Zoeller, USA.
Volume 116: Christina Bamia, Greece; John A. Baron, USA; Natasa Djordjevic, Serbia; Adriana Farah, Brazil; Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, USA; Peter C.H. Hollman, The Netherlands; Manami Inoue, Japan; Farhad Islami, USA; Charles William Jameson, USA; Farin Kamangar, USA; Siegfried Knasmüller, Austria; Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Germany; David L. McCormick, USA; Elizabeth Milne, Australia; Igor Pogribny, USA; Luis Felipe Ribeiro Pinto, Brazil; Ivan I. Rusyn, USA; Rashmi Sinha, USA; Leslie T. Stayner, USA; Mariana C. Stern, USA; Alessandra Tavani, Italy; Piet van den Brandt, The Netherlands; Kathryn M. Wilson, USA.
collaborators 141 Volume 117: Scott M. Bartell, USA; Frédéric Y. Bois, France; Gloria M. Calaf, Chile; Weihsueh A. Chiu, USA; Lisa Connolly, United Kingdom; Paul A. Demers, Canada; Michael J. DeVito, USA; Warren G. Foster, Canada; Melissa Friesen, USA; Lin Fritschi, Australia; Catherine Gibbons, USA; Michelle J. Hooth, USA; David McLean, New Zealand; Akiyoshi Nishikawa, Japan; Matthew K. Ross, USA; Consolato M. Sergi, Canada; Takashi Umemura, Japan; James H. Yiin, USA.
Volume 118: Wolfgang Ahrens, Germany; Maria Albin, Sweden; Marissa G. Baker, USA; David C. Christiani, USA; Jason M. Fritz, USA; Shoji Fukushima, Japan; William M. Gwinn, USA; Johnni Hansen, Denmark; Hans Kromhout, The Netherlands; Jérome Lavoué, Canada; Danièle Luce, France; Ruth M. Lunn, USA; Andrea ’t Mannetje, New Zealand; Armen K. Nersesyan, Austria; Susan Peters, The Netherlands; Erik J. Tokar, USA; Patti C. Zeidler-Erdely, USA.
Volume 119: Abdul Afghan, Canada; Marc Baril, Canada; Frederick A. Beland, USA; James V. Bruckner, USA; John W. Cherrie, United Kingdom; Ana Paula de Melo Loureiro, Brazil; June K. Dunnick, USA; Isabel M.P.L.V.O. Ferreira, Portugal; Gonçalo C.P. Gamboa da Costa, USA; Carla Hilts, Canada; Keith Houck, USA; Charles W. Jameson, USA; Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Germany; Lawrence H. Lash, USA; Ronald Melnick, USA; Kumiko Ogawa, Japan; Francisco J.R. Paumgartten, Brazil; Consolato M. Sergi, Canada; Bernard W. Stewart, Australia; Camilla Svendsen, Norway; Kristine L. Witt, USA.
Volume 120: Roberta Andreoli, Italy; Fiorella Belpoggi, Italy; Weihsueh A. Chiu, USA; John E. French, USA; Silvia Fustinoni, Italy; Pascal Guénel, France; Yoko Hirabayashi, Japan; Nancy B. Hopf, Switzerland; James Huff, USA; Jennifer Jinot, USA; Jorunn Kirkeleit, Norway; Dong-Hee Koh, Republic of Korea; Igor Linhart, Czech Republic; Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Denmark; David M. Reif, USA; David B. Richardson, USA; David Ross, USA; Nathaniel Rothman, USA; Keith Salazar, USA; Andreas Seidler, Germany; Sharon Silver, USA; Elaine Symanski, USA; Reuben Thomas, USA; Hiroyuki Tsuda, Japan; Roel Vermeulen, The Netherlands; Paolo Vineis, United Kingdom; Luoping Zhang, USA.
Invited specialists Volume 115: Deborah C. Glass, Australia; Tom Sorahan, United Kingdom. Volume 120: Deborah C. Glass, Australia.
Representatives Volume 115: Michèle Bisson, National Competence Centre for Industrial Safety and Environmental Protection (INIRIS), France. Volume 116: Anne Morise, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), France. Volume 117: Hamadi Dekhil, National Agency of Sanitary and Environmental Control of Products, Tunisia. Volume 118: Yiqun Chen, Health and Safety Executive (HSE), United Kingdom; Pauline Guillou, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), France; Frank Pega, World Health Organization, Switzerland; Andreas Ullrich, World Health Organization, Switzerland. Volume 119: Sandrine Charles, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), France; Souhir Ladhari, National Agency of Sanitary and Environmental Control of Products, Tunisia. Volume 120: Roberto Flores-Munguia, National Cancer Institute, USA; Ariane Leites Larentis, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil; Min Kyung Lim, National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea; Eun Young Park, National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea; Marcia Sarpa de Campos Mello, National Cancer Institute, Brazil.
The IARC Handbooks Group (IHB) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Working Group members Linda Rabeneck, Toronto, Canada; Carolina Wiesner, Bogotá, Colombia; João Breda, Copenhagen, Jennifer Baker, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Marc Gunter, Lyon, France; Michael Hoffmeister, Rudolf Kaaks, Heidelberg, Michael Leitzmann, Regensburg, Germany; Carlo Senore, Turin, Italy; Isao Shimokawa, Nagasaki, Japan; Isabelle Romieu, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Iris Nagtegaal, Nijmegen, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Michael Bretthauer, Elisabete Weiderpass, Oslo, Norway; Joseph Sung, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Samar Al Homoud, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Josep Augé Fradera, Barcelona, Montse Garcia, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Johannes Blom, Rolf Hultcrantz, Stockholm, Sweden; Jean-Luc Bulliard, Lausanne, Switzerland; Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Bangkok, Thailand; Kaitlin Wade, Bristol, Annie Anderson, Robert Steele, Dundee, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Peter Sasieni, London, Andrew Renehan, Manchester, United Kingdom; Susan Gapstur, Robert Smith, Atlanta, Tim Byers, Aurora, Margot Cleary, Austin, Paul Pinsky, Bethesda, Jennifer Ligibel, Boston, Stephen Hursting, Chapel Hill, Henry Thompson, Fort Collins, Ann Zauber, New York, Douglas Corley, Oakland, Ronald Herbert, Research Triangle Park, Graham Colditz, Saint Louis, Cornelia Ulrich, Salt Lake City, Douglas Robertson, White River Junction, USA.
Secretariat from outside IARC Jean-Marie Dangou, World Health Organization, Brazzaville, Congo; Franca Bianchini, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Andre Ilbawi, Jason Montez, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Representatives Luciana Neamtiu, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; Chisato Hamashima, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan; Jae Kwan Jun, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea.
142 biennial report 2016/2017 The WHO/IARC Classification of Tumours Group (WCT) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
The series editors, volume editors, and all the contributors to the volumes of the WHO Classification of Tumours. Collaborations with the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD), International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR), and other organizations engaged in cancer pathology are critical to the success of the WHO Classification of Tumours.
Section of Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis (MCA)
The Epigenetics Group (EGE) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Gabriella Tikellis, Victoria, Australia; Christoph Bock, Vienna, Austria; François Fuks, André Nogueira da Costa, Brussels, Belgium; Silvia Rogatto, São Paulo, Sheila Lima, Felipe Pinto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Anastas Gospodinov, Sophia, Bulgaria; Chantal Matar, Ottawa, Canada; Gordan Lauc, Nino Sincic, Zagreb, Croatia; Kirsti Husgafvel-Pursiainen, Eeva Kettunen, Helsinki, Finland; Saadi Khochbin, Claire Vourc’h, Grenoble, Patrick Mehlen, Philippe Merle, Peter Mulligan, Isabelle Chemin, Jean-Yves Blay, Robert Dante, Julien Marie, Alain Puisieux, Lyon, Ellen Obberghen-Schilling, Nice, Jacqueline Clavel, Paris, Anne Corlu, Rennes, France; Rudolf Kaaks, Christoph Plass, Heidelberg, Zhao-Qi Wang, Jenna, Germany; Soterios Kyrtopoulos, Athens, Greece; Bernardo Bonanni, Milan, Italy; Jeongseon Kim, Goyang, Republic of Korea; Anne-Lise Börresen-Dale, Vessela N. Kristensen, Siri Haberg, Oslo, Norway; Manel Esteller, Barcelona, Jose Ramon Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain; Nicole Probst, Basel, Rabih Murr, Geneva, Switzerland; Yun Yun Gong, Belfast, Michael Routledge, Leeds, Terry Dwyer, Oxford, Branwen Hennig, Andrew Pretince, Elio Riboli, Paolo Vineis, London, United Kingdom; Felipe Vaca Paniagua, Mexico; Temduang Limpaiboon, Khon Kaen, Thailand; Robert A. Waterland, Houston, Steve Horvath, Joseph Wiemels, Los Angeles, Jia Chen, New York, Stephanie London, Research Triangle Park, Martyn Smith, San Francisco, Bing Ren, San Diego, Reetta Holmila, Winston-Salem, USA.
The Molecular Mechanisms and Biomarkers Group (MMB) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Shahrokh F. Shariat, Vienna, Austria; Joëlle Nortier, Sandrine Rorive, Thierry Roumeguère, Brussels, Belgium; Maria Luisa Garmendia, Santiago, Chile; Yan Song, Beijing, China; Gloria Sanchez, Medellin, Colombia; Carolina Porras, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, Fundación INCIENSA, Costa Rica; Fran Borovecki, Bojan Jelaković, Sandra Karanović, Neda Slade, Zagreb, Damir Dittrich, Krešimir Karlović, Maja Mišić, Karla Tomić, Slavonski Brod, Croatia; Tomas Stopka, Ruth Tachezy, Zuzana Vojtechova, Prague, Czech Republic; Gerard Zalcman, Caen, Jean-Paul Bringuier, Barbara Charbotel, Isabelle Chemin, Sebastien Couraud, Béatrice Fervers, Claire Tissot, Lyon, Evanguelos Xylinas, Paris, France; Yuji Eso, Hiroko Marusawa, Kyoto, Yukari Totsuka, Tokyo, Japan; Gabriela Torres-Mejia, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Peter E.M. Taschner, Leiden, The Netherlands; Steve G. Rozen, Kanaga Sabapathy, Patrick Tan, Bin Tean Teh, Singapore; Shana J. Sturla, Zurich, Switzerland; Mike Stratton, Cambridge, Volker Arlt, David Phillips, London, United Kingdom; Mark LaBarge, Martha Stampfer, Berkeley, Fred Beland, Mona Churchwell, Jefferson, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, La Jolla, Silvia Balbo, Andrea Carra, Steve Hecht, Minneapolis, Ronald A. Herbert, Arun Pandiri, Robert Sills, Research Triangle Park, Kathleen G. Dickman, Arthur P. Grollman, Thomas Rosenquist, Viktoria S. Sidorenko, Stony Brook, Adriana Heguy, New York, Peggy Porter, Seattle, USA.
Section of Molecular Pathology (MPA)
The Section of Molecular Pathology (MPA) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
L.A. Aaltonen, Helsinki, Finland; D.A. Arber, Stanford, USA; F. Bosman, Lausanne, Switzerland; B. Brors, Heidelberg, Germany; E. Campo, Barcelona, Spain; W.K. Cavenee, San Diego, USA; J.K.C. Chan, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; N. Diessl, Heidelberg, Germany; C. Eberhart, Baltimore, USA; D. Elder, Philadelphia, USA; D.W. Ellison, Memphis, USA; A.K. El-Naggar, Houston, USA; D. Figarella- Branger, Marseille, France; L.M. Forsström, Helsinki, Finland; F. Giangaspero, Roma, Italy; D. Gramatzki Zurich, Switzerland; J.R. Grandis, Pittsburgh, USA; H. Grossniklaus, Atlanta, USA; N.L Harris, Boston, USA; P.N. Harter, Frankfurt, Germany; R.P. Hasserjian, Boston, USA; P.A. Humphrey, New Haven, USA; E.S. Jaffe, Bethesda, USA; A. Kindler-Röhrborn, Essen, Germany; T. Kivelä, Helsinki, Finland; P. Kleihues, Zurich, Switzerland; G. Kloeppel, Munich, Germany; B. Koelsch, Essen, Germany; S.R. Lakhani, Brisbane, Australia; M.M. Le Beau, Chicago, USA; H-K. Liu, Heidelberg, Germany; P. Liu, Beijing, China; R.V. Lloyd, Madison, USA; D.N. Louis, Boston, USA; M. Mäkinen, Tampere, Finland; D. Massi, Firenze, Italy; M. Mittelbronn, Frankfurt, Germany; H. Moch, Zurich, Switzerland; A. Orazi, New York, USA; R. Osamura, Kawasaki, Japan; W. Paulus, Münster, Germany; A. Perry, San Francisco, USA; S.A. Pileri, Bologna, Italy; G. Reifenberger, Dusseldorf, Germany; V.E. Reuter, New York, USA; M.W. Ronellenfitsch, Frankfurt, Germany; J. Rosai, Milano, Italy; E.J. Rushing, Zurich, Switzerland; R. Scolyer, Sydney, Australia; R. Siebert, Kiel, Germany; P.J. Slootweg, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; H. Stein, Berlin, Germany; J.P. Steinbach, Frankfurt, Germany; B.W. Stewart, Sydney, Australia; U. Sure, Essen, Germany; S.H. Swerdlow, Pittsburgh, USA; T. Takata, Hiroshima, Japan; J. Thiele, Cologne, Germany; T.M. Ulbright, Indianapolis, USA; A. Vital, Bordeaux, France; A. Von Deimling, Heidelberg, Germany; K.M. Walsh, San Francisco, USA; M. Weller, Zurich, Switzerland; O.D. Wiestler, Heidelberg, Germany; R. Willemze, Leiden, The Netherlands; Q. Wang, Heidelberg, Germany; S. Wolf, Heidelberg, Germany; M.R. Wrench, San Francisco, USA.
collaborators 143 Section of Infections (INF)
The Infections and Cancer Biology Group (ICB) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Marc Arbyn, John-Paul Bogers, Antwerp, Belgium; Laura Sichero, Luisa Lina Villa, São Paulo, Brazil; Alba Lucia Combita, Bogotá, Colombia; Henri Gruffat, Evelyne Manet, Uzma A. Hasan, Lyon, Jean-Claude Alvarez, Garches, Jean Lacau de Saint Guily, Paris, Christine Clavel, Véronique Dalstein, Reims, Antoine Touze, Tours, France; Paul Brennan, Gary Clifford, Jean-Damien Combes, Silvia Franceschi, Zdenko Herceg, Hector Hernandez-Vargas, Eric Lucas, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan (IARC collaborators), Lyon, France; Nicole Fischer, Adam Grundhoff, Hamburg, Christa Flechtenmacher, Lutz Gissmann, Dana Holzinger, Karin Müller-Decker, Michael Pawlita, Rüdiger Ridder, Daniele Viarisio, Heidelberg, Germany; Nitin Gangane, Sevagram, Devasenaa Anantharaman, Radhakrishnan Pillai, Thiruvananthapuram, India; Susanna Chiocca, Fausto Maffini, Domenico Mattoscio, Milan, Gennaro Altamura, Giuseppe Borzacchiello, Naples, Maria Benevolo, Maria V. Chiantore, Paola Di Bonito, Maria Gabriella Donà, Gianna Fiorucci, Massimo Giuliani, Giorgio Mangino, Giovanna Romeo, Rome, Italy; Laia Alemany, Silvia de Sanjosé, Belén Lloveras Rubio, Barcelona, Spain; Lesley A. Anderson, Andrew Kunzmann, Belfast, United Kingdom; Gypsyamber D’Souza, Baltimore, Anna Barbara Moscicki, Los Angeles, Anna R. Giuliano, Shalaka S. Hampras, Christine Pierce-Campbell, Dana E. Rollison, Tampa, USA.
The Infections and Cancer Epidemiology Group (ICE) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Alex Vorsters, Antwerp, Belgium; Tashi Choden, Tashi Tobgay, Tshokey Tshokey, Ugyen Tshomo, Thimphu, Bhutan; Marc Brisson, Montreal, Canada; You-Lin Qiao, Fang-hui Zhao, Beijing, China; Matti Lehtinen, Tampere, Finland; Isabelle Etienney, Isabelle Heard, Jean Lacau de Saint Guily, Paris, Philippe Birembaut, Christine Clavel, Véronique Dalstein, Reims, France; Partha Basu, Freddie Bray, Jacques Ferlay, Tarik Gheit, Rolando Herrero, Sabina Rinaldi, Massimo Tommasino (IARC collaborators), Lyon, France; Federico Canzian, Heidelberg, Germany; Luigino Dal Maso, Diego Serraino, Aviano, Francesca Carozzi, Florence, Paolo Giorgi Rossi, Reggio Emilia, Franco Merletti, Guglielmo Ronco, Turin, Italy; Daniëlle A.M. Heideman, Chris Meijer, Peter J.F. Snijders, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Félix Sayinzoga, Marie-Chantal Umulisa, Kigali, Rwanda; Silvia de Sanjosé, Raúl Zamora-Ros, Barcelona, Spain; Joakim Dillner, Stockholm, Sweden; Julia Bohlius, Bern, Alexandra U. Scherrer, Zurich, Switzerland; Paolo Vineis, London, Zhengming Chen, Iona Millwood, Richard Peto, Ling Yang, Oxford, United Kingdom; Eric Engels, Cari M. Kitahara, Aimee Kreimer, Lisa Mirabello, Mark Schiffman, Bethesda, Ikuko Kato, Detroit, John Wakefield, Seattle, USA.
Section of Environment and Radiation (ENV)
The Section of Environment and Radiation (ENV) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Edouard Tursan d’Espaignet, Australia; Alexander Rozhko, Ilya Veyalkin, Belarus; Jeremie Dabin, Belgium; Christoffer Johansen, Denmark; Abraham Aseffa, Mathewos Assefa, Kedir Monjor, Ethiopia; Anssi Auvinen, Finland; Isabelle Baldi, Florent de Vathaire, Béatrice Fervers, Marcel Goldberg, Dominique Laurier, Pierre Lebailly, Klervi Leuraud, Carlo Maccia, Therese Truong, Vivien Viallon, Joe Wiart, Marie Zins, France; Thomas Brüning, Gerhard Geipel, Bernd Grosche, Peter Kaatsch, Eva Kantelhardt, Hajo Zeeb, Germany; Shunichi Yamashita, Shinji Yoshinaga, Japan; Kazbek Apsalikov, Tatyana Belikhina, Kazakhstan; Diana Menya, Kenya; Andreas Jahnen, Luxembourg; Charles Dzamalala, Yohannie Mlombe, Malawi; Annelle Zietsman, Namibia; Michael Hauptmann, Hans Kromhout, Roel Vermeulen, The Netherlands; Charles Adisa, Angelica Anele, Ana Godson, Nigeria; Kristina Kjærheim, Karl-Christian Nordby, Tamara Zhunussova, Norway; Alexander Akleyev, Tamara Azizova, Igor Bukhtiyarov, Viktor Ivanov, Sergey Kashansky, Evgeny Kovalevsky, Lyudmila Krestinina, Sergey Shinkarev, Mikhail Sokolnikov, Valeriy Stepanenko, Russian Federation; Herbert Cubasch, Elvira Singh, Frank Winde, South Africa; Elisabeth Cardis, Spain; Maria Feychting, Sweden; Blandina Mmbaga, Amos Mwasamwaja, Michael Oresto Munishi, United Republic of Tanzania; Moses Galukande, Uganda; Dimitry Bazyka, Vadim Chumak, Ukraine; Isabel Dos Santos Silva, Paul Elliott, Richard Haylock, Michael Watts, United Kingdom; Christian Abnet, Laura Beane Freeman, Sandy Dawsey, Vladimir Drozdovitch, Maureen Hatch, Choonsik Lee, Catherine Metayer, David Richardson, Steven Simon, USA; Groesbeck Parham, Zambia.
Section of Nutrition and Metabolism (NME)
The Biomarkers Group (BMA) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Andrea Gsur, Vienna, Austria; Barbara Vanaelst, Belgium; Rui Reis, Fabiana Vazques, Barretos, Brazil; Liang Li, David Wishart, Edmonton, Canada; Eva Bustamante, Maria Luisa Garmendia, Santiago, Chile; Gloria Sanchez, Medellín, Colombia; Carolina Porras, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, San Jose, Costa Rica; Kim Overvad, Aarhus, Anne Tjønneland, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kati Hanhineva, Kuopio, Finland; Erwan Engel, Claudine Manach, Clermont-Ferrand, David Cox, Béatrice Fervers, Vivian Viallon, Lyon, Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault, Françoise Clavel- Chapelon, Agnès Fournier, Marina Kvaskoff, Fabienne Lesueur, Paris, France; Renee Fortner, Rudolf Kaaks, Tilman Kühn, Heidelberg, Heiner Boeing, Potsdam, Germany; Antonia Trichopoulou, Athens, Greece; Lorraine Brennan, David Hughes, Dublin, Ireland; Domenico Palli, Florence, Bernardo Bonanni, Vittorio Krogh, Sabina Sieri, Milan, Salvatore Panico, Naples, Rosario Tumino, Ragusa, Italy; Hwan-Hee Jang, Jeonju, Republic of Korea; Angelica Angeles Lleneras, Martin Lajous, Ruy Lopez, Adriana Monge, Gabriela Torres, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Bas Bueno de Mesquita, Bilthoven, Matty Weijenberg, Maastricht, Charlotte Onland-Moret, Petra H.M. Peeters, Carla van Gils, Roel Vermeulen, Utrecht, Ellen
144 biennial report 2016/2017 Kampman, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Per Magne Ueland, Bergen, Eiliv Lund, Elisabete Weiderpass, Tromsø, Norway; Herbert Cubash, Raquel Duarte, Maureen Joffe, Shane Norris, Eunice van den Berg, Johannesburg, Christine Taljaard, Esté Vorster, Potchefstroom, South Africa; Antonio Agudo, Manolis Kogevinas, Raúl Zamora-Ros, Barcelona, Maria José Sánchez, Granada, Carmen Navarro, Murcia, Aurelio Barricarte, Pamplona, Miren Dorronsoro, San Sebastian, Spain; Jonas Manjer, Malmö, Joakim Hennings, Maria Sandström, Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Umeå, Sweden; Nicole Probst-Hensch, Basel, Switzerland; Kay-Tee Khaw, Cambridge, Hector Keun, Elio Riboli, Kostas Tsilidis, Paolo Vineis, London, Tim Key, Ruth Travis, Oxford, United Kingdom; Cari Kitahara, Rashmi Sinha, Bethesda, Megan Rice, Stephanie Smith-Warner, Boston, Cornelia Ulrich, Salt Lake City, Peggy Porter, Seattle, USA.
The Dietary Exposure Assessment Group (DEX) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Madjid Atek, Algiers, Algeria; Peter M. Abuja, Jan-Eric Litton, Kurt Zatloukal, Graz, Mario Döller, Kufstein, Jürgen König, Petra Rust, Vienna, Austria; Koenraad Cuypers, Jean Tafforeau, Herman Van Oyen, Brussels, Belgium; Victoire Damienne Agueh, Waliou Hounkpatin Amoussa, Carmelle Mizéhoun-Adissoda, Cotonou, Benin; Segametsi Ditshebo Maruapula, Gaborone, Botswana; Claudia Choma Bettega Almeida, Sandra Crispim, Curitiba, Cristiane Cominetti, Maria do Rosario Gondim Peixoto, Goiâna, Severina Carla Lima, Clélia De Oliveira Lyra, Natal, Rosangela Pereira, Rosely Sichieri, Rio de Janeiro, Regina Fisberg, Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni, São Paulo, Brazil; Ella Compaore, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Brice U. Saha Foudjo, Inocent Gouado, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Christine M. Friedenreich, Nonsikelelo Mathe, Edmonton, Hélène Delisle, Isabel Fortier, Montreal, Canada; Catterina Ferreccio, Santiago, Chile; Amoin Georgette Konan, Clement Diby Nzi, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; João Breda, Jo Jewell, Copenhagen, Anja Pia Biltoft-Jensen, Tue Christensen, Ellen Trolle, Søborg, Denmark; Ayoub Al Jawaldeh, Sahar Saad Zaghloul, Cairo, Egypt; Liisa Korkalo, Helsinki, Finland; Carine Dubuisson, Céline Ménard, Jean-Luc Volatier, Maisons-Alfort, Edwige Landais, Yves Martin-Prével, Claire Mouquet, Montpellier, Sandrine Lioret, Villejuif, Lionel Brunie, Villeurbanne, France; Wolfgang Ahrens, Bremen, Thorsten Heuer, Carolin Krems, Karlsruhe, Veit Grote, Munich, Germany; Paul Amuna, George Amponsah Annor, Francis Zotor, Accra, Ledo James, Tema, Ghana; Antonia Trichopoulou, Athens, Greece; Cecily Kelleher, Celine Murrin, Dublin, Ireland; Pauline Allemand, Anna Lartey, Catherine Leclercq, Warren Lee, Rome, Italy; Junko Ishihara, Kanagawa, Norie Sawada, Tokyo, Japan; Catherine Mutie, Nairobi, Kenya; Jeongseon Kim, Republic of Korea; Alexander Kalimbira, Lilongwe, Malawi; Daniel Cauchi, Charmaine Gauci, Msida, Malta; Gabriela Garcia, Juan Ángel Rivera Dommarco, Tania Sanchez Pimienta, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Karima El Rhazi, Fez, Asmae El Hamdouchi, Saloua Labzizi, Rabat- Kénitra, Morocco; Hilde Liisa Nashandi, Windhoek, Namibia; Marga C. Ocké, Caroline van Rossum, Bilthoven, Edvard Beem, Jildau Bouwman, Jolien Wenink, The Hague, Jeanne de Vries, Pieter van’t Veer, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Oluseye Olusegun Onabanjo, Abeokuta, Kingsley Ikechukwu Ubaoji, Awka, Olaide Ruth Aderibigbe, Ibadan, Nigeria; Lene Frost Andersen, Arnhild Bergljot Haga Rimestad, Oslo, Norway; Maria Antonia Calhau, Lisbon, Portugal; Mojca Gabrijelcic, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Mieke Faber, Cape Town, Shane A. Norris, Pedro Terrence Pisa, Johannesburg, Namukolo Covic, Johann Jerling, Annamarie Kruger, Esté Vorster, Potchefstroom, South Africa; Teresa Robledo, Madrid, Spain; Esther Camenzind-Frey, Christine Zuberbuehler, Bern, Timothy Armstrong, Francesco Branca, Oleg Chestnov, Riccardo Lampariello, Julie Torode, Geneva, Karl Presser, Zurich, Switzerland; Igor Spiroski, Skopje, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Jalila El Ati, Tunis, Tunisia; Alex Mokori, Robert Fungo, Muniirah Mbabazi, Kampala, Uganda; Omar Dary, Cambridge, Mitrou Giota, Mandy Wilja Mirembe, London, Paul Finglas, Norwich, Barrie Margetts, Southampton, United Kingdom; Jennifer Coates, Brooke Colaiezzi, Boston, Alanna J. Moshfegh, Beltsville, James Hebert, Nitin Shivappa, Columbia, Zo Rambeloson, North Carolina, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, San Diego, Chessa Lutter, Washington DC, USA; Chakare Benhura, Jephat Chifamba, Tatenda Machiweni, Carol Mahachi, Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Nutritional Epidemiology Group (NEP) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Marthe De Boevre, Karl De Ruyck, Sarah De Saeger, Koen Van Herck, Ghent, Lode Godderis, Leuven, Belgium; Fabiana de Lima Vazquez, Barretos, Brazil; Robert W. Bruce, Ahmed El-Sohemy, Gail McKeown-Eyssen, Toronto, Lauren Griffith, Parminder Raina, Hamilton, Canada; Maria Luisa Garmendia, Santiago, Chile; Gloria Inés Sánchez, Medellín, Colombia; Carolina Porras-Gutiérrez, Ana Cecilia Rodriguez, San Jose, Costa Rica; Kim Overvad, Aarhus, Anne Tjønneland, Copenhagen, Berit Lilienthal Heitmann, Ina Olmer Specht, Frederiksberg, Denmark; Gabriel Perlemuter, Clamart, Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Villejuif, France; Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Julia Butt, Rudolf Kaaks, Tilman Kuhn, Michael Pawlita, Tim Waterboer, Heidelberg, Heiner Boeing, Potsdam, Germany; Pagona Lagiou, Antonia Trichopoulou, Athens, Greece; Giovanna Masala, Domenico Palli, Florence, Vittorio Krogh, Sabina Sieri, Milan, Amalia Mattiello, Salvatore Panico, Naples, Rosario Tumino, Ragusa, Carlotta Sacerdote, Carlo Senore, Alessio Naccarti, Paolo Vineis, Turin, Italy; David Hughes, Dublin, Ireland; Ann Korir, Nairobi, Kenya; Farah Naja, Lara Nasreddine, Beirut, Lebanon; Gabriela Torres-Mejía, Cuernavaca, Mexico; Hind el Fatemi, Karima el Rhazi, Mohamed Khalis, Fez, Rachid Bekkali, Hind Mrabti, Rabat, Morocco; Bas Bueno de Mesquita, Eugene Jansen, Monique Verschuren, Bilthoven, Petra H.M. Peeters, Utrecht, Ellen Kampman, Diewertje Kok, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Eiliv Lund, Elisabete Weiderpass, Tromsø, Norway; Herbert Cubash, Raquel Duarte, Maureen Joffe, Shane Norris, Johannesburg, Christine Taljaard, Esté Vorster, Potchefstroom, South Africa; Talita Duarte Salles, Carlos González, Barcelona, Maria José Sánchez, Granada, Carmen Navarro, Murcia, José Ramón Quirós, Oviedo, Aurelio Barricarte, Pamplona, Miren Dorronsoro, San Sebastian, Marina Lopez, Valencia, Spain; Jonas Manjer, Malmö, Malin Sund, Umeå, Sweden; Kay-Tee Khaw, Claudia Langenberg, Nick Wareham, Cambridge, Rebecca Beeken, Amanda Cross, Robert Goldin, Maria Kyrgiou, David Muller, Elio Riboli, Andrew Steptoe, Kostas Tsilidis, Jane Wardle, London, Andrew Renehan, Manchester, John E. Hesketh, Newcastle, Andrew Hart, Norwich, Kathryn Bradbury, Tim Key, Ruth Travis, Oxford, Barrie Margetts, Southampton, Robert Newton, York, United Kingdom; Demetrius Albanes, Erikka Loftfield, Rashmi Sinha, Stephanie Weinstein, Bethesda, Ed Giovannucci, Boston, Veronika Fedirko, Mia Gaudet, Andrew T. Gewirtz, Atlanta, Laura Beretta, Houston, Thomas Rohan, Howard Strickler, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, New York, Cornelia Ulrich, Salt Lake City, Ulrike Peters, Seattle, USA.
collaborators 145 The Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group (NMB) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Robert MacInnis, Melbourne, Australia; Karl-Heinz Wagner, Vienna, Austria; Marc Aerts, Hasselt, Belgium; Parminder Raina, Hamilton, Canada; Kim Overvad, Aarhus, Par Kragh Andersen, Anne Tjønneland, Copenhagen, Denmark; Marie Christine Boutron-Ruault, Françoise Clavel- Chapelon, Villejuif, France; Rudolf Kaaks, Tilman Kühn, Heidelberg, Heiner Boeing, Potsdam, Michael Leitzmann, Regensburg, Germany; Christina Bamia, Pagona Lagiou, Antonia Trichopoulou, Athens, Greece; Giovanna Masala, Domenico Palli, Florence, Enzo Bagnardi, Rino Bellocco, Vittorio Krogh, Sabina Sieri, Milan, Amalia Mattiello, Salvatore Panico, Naples, Laura Baglietto, Pisa, Rosario Tumino, Ragusa, Maura Mezzetti, Rome, Carlotta Sacerdote, Paolo Vineis, Turin, Italy; Bas Bueno de Mesquita, Monique Verschuren, Bilthoven, Eline Van Roekel, Matty Weijenberg, Maastricht, Petra H.M. Peeters, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Eiliv Lund, Elisabete Weiderpass, Tromsø, Norway; Talita Duarte Salles, Carlos González, Barcelona, Maria José Sánchez, Granada, Carmen Navarro, Murcia, José Ramón Quirós, Oviedo, Aurelio Barricarte, Pamplona, Miren Dorronsoro, San Sebastian, Spain; Jonas Manjer, Malmö, Malin Sund, Umeå, Sweden; Adam Butterworth, Kay-Tee Khaw, Nick Wareham, Angela Wood, Cambridge, Marc Chadeau, David Muller, Elio Riboli, Kostas K. Tsilidis, London, Tim Key, Ruth Travis, Oxford, United Kingdom; Neal D. Freedman, Victor Kipnis, Doug Midthune, Bethesda, Stephanie Smith-Warner, Boston, Joan Sabaté, Loma Linda, Duncan Thomas, Los Angeles, John Witte, San Francisco, USA.
Section of Genetics (GEN)
The Genetic Epidemiology Group (GEP) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Marcelo Fernando Figari, Marta Vilensky, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Allison Hodge, Melbourne, Gianluca Severi, Victoria, Australia; José Carlos de Oliveira, Goiânia, Maria Paula Curado, Luis Paulo Kowalski, Victor Wünsch-Filho, São Paulo, José Roberto Vasconcelos de Podestà, Vitoria, Brazil; Mark Lathrop, Montreal, Liran Shlush, Ontario, Rayjean Hung, Toronto, Canada; Sandra Perdomo-Velasquez, Paula Rodriguez, Bogotá, Colombia; Lenka Foretova, Brno, Vladimir Janout, Olomouc, Ivana Holcatova, Prague, Czech Republic; Andres Metspalu, Tartu, Estonia; Markus Perola, Helsinki, Finland; Jean-François Deleuze, Paris, France; Wolfgang Ahrens, Bremen, Michael Pawlita, Tim Waterboer, Heidelberg, Erich Wichmann, Munich, Germany; Pagona Lagiou, Athens, Greece; Rajesh Dikshit, Mumbai, India; Reza Malekzadeh, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran; Claire Healy, Dublin, Ireland; Jerry Polesel, Aviano, Lorenzo Simonato, Padua, Stefania Boccia, Rome, Franco Merletti, Turin, Italy; Ronald Stolk, Groningen, Gert-Jan van Ommen, Leiden, Piet A. van den Brandt, Maastricht, C.M. van Duijn, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Gry Kvalheim, Øivind Midttun, Per Magne Ueland, Bergen, Kristian Hveem, Steinar Krokstad, Arnulf Langhammer, Levanger, Kristina Kjaerheim, Oslo, Norway; Beata Swiatkowska, Lodz, Jolanta Lissowska, Warsaw, Poland; Ciprian Bolca, Dana Mates, Jinga Viorel, Bucharest, Romania; Alexander Boroda, Anush Mukeriya, David Zaridze, Moscow, Russian Federation; Miodrag Ognjanovic, Simona Ognjanovic, Belgrade, Serbia; Eleonora Fabianova, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; Ivo Gut, Barcelona, Spain; Jonas Manjer, Malmö, Lars Egevad, Alicja Wolk, Stockholm, Mikael Johansson, Börje Ljungberg, Umeå, Sweden; Sulee Sangrajrang, Bangkok, Thailand; Tatiana Macfarlane, Aberdeen, George Davey-Smith, Richard Martin, Andrew Ness, Caroline Relton, Bristol, David Conway, Glasgow, Mike Stratton, Hinxton, Rosamonde Banks, Leeds, John Field, Liverpool, Elio Riboli, Paolo Vineis, London, Max Robinson, Newcastle, United Kingdom; Mauricio Cuello, Montevideo, Uruguay; Susan Gapstur, Victoria Stevens, Atlanta, Gypsamber D’Souza, Baltimore, Christian Abnet, Neil Caporaso, Stephen Chanock, Aimee Kreimer, Mark Purdue, Nathaniel Rothman, Bethesda, Howard Sesso, Boston, Gloria Ho, Bronx, Neil Hayes, Chapel Hill, Christopher I. Amos, Hanover, Loïc Le Marchand, Honolulu, Samir Hanash, Houston, Alan Arslan, Anne Jacquotte, New York, Lesley Butler, Jian-Min Yuan, Pittsburgh, Chu Chen, Seattle, Ross Prentice, USA.
The Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group (GCS) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Professor Gilles Thomas and his team at Synergy Lyon Cancer (Lyon, France) for high-performance computing support. Professor Thomas was an inspiration to GCS and is deeply missed. Other collaborators include: Melissa C. Southey, Melbourne, Australia; Henrik Hjalgrim, Copenhagen, Denmark; Arnaud Sherpereel, Lille, Isabelle Chemin, Francesca Damiola, Charles Dumontet, Françoise Galateau-Sallé, Janet Hall, Uzma Hasan, Joel Lachuer, Sylvie Lantuejoul, Arnaud Manel, Emmanuel Vian, Lyon, Nicolas Girard, Fabienne Lesueur, Paris, France; Jajah Fachiroh, Dewajani Purnomosari, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Reza Malekzadeh, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran; Beena Devi, Kuching, Malaysia; Anke Van De Berg, Groningen, Anne-Marie C. Dingemans, Ernst-Jan M. Speel, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Elisabete Weiderpass, Oslo, Norway; Carmen Jeronimo, Porto, Portugal; Juan Sandoval, Valencia, Spain; Tam Ha, Singapore; Suleeporn Sangrajrang, Bangkok, Thailand; Ruth Jarrett, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Allan Hildesheim, Bethesda, Natasha Franck, Boston, Chris Amos, Hanover, Wendy Cozen, Los Angeles, David E. Goldgar, Sean V. Tavtigian, Salt Lake City, USA.
Section of Early Detection and Prevention (EDP)
The Prevention and Implementation Group (PRI) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Silvina Arrossi, Rosa Laudi, Laura Thuyaret, Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Buenos Aires, Laura Fleider, Silvio Tatti, Hospital de Clínicas “José de San Martín”, Buenos Aires, Juan Mural, Hospital Posadas, Buenos Aires, Alejandra Picconi, Instituto Malbran, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Alesya Evmenenko, Elena Khorevich, Vitaliy Osharin, N.N. Alexandrov National Cancer Centre of Belarus, Minsk, Viatcheslav Grankov, Valiantsin
146 biennial report 2016/2017 Rusovich, WHO Country Office, Minsk, Oleg Dubovik, UNDP Country Office, Minsk, Aliaksandr Davidzenka, UNFPA Country Office, Minsk, Belarus; Carolina Terán, Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Sucre, Bolivia; Johanna Acevedo, Paz Cook, Catterina Ferreccio, Marcela Lagos, Javiera Leniz, Vanessa van de Wyngard, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Carla Molina, Universidad Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Marcela Celis, Sandra Martinez, Yuly Salgado, Carolina Wiesner, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogotá, Armando Baena, Gloria Sánchez, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; Paula Gonzalez, Carolina Porras, Proyecto Epidemiológico Guanacaste, Alejandro Calderón, Emmanuel Gonzalez, Luis Bernardo Sáenz, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, San José, Costa Rica; Mauricio Maza, Basic Health International, San Salvador, El Salvador; Francis Mégraud, INSERM, CHU. Pellegrin, Bordeaux, Anne-Sophie Petit, Marie Préau, Arnaud Simeone, GREPS, Université Lyon 2, Franck Chauvin, Simon Ducarroz, Julie Kalecinski, Véronique Régnier, Fabien Tinquaut, Centre Hygée – Centre Régional de Prévention des Cancers, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France; Anabelle Ferrera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Jackeline Figueroa, Secretaría de Salud, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Reza Malekzadeh, Alireza Sadjadi, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Farhad Pourfarzi, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Ahad Eshraghian, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran; Il Ju Choi, Young-Il Kim, Min Kyung Lim, Byung Ho Nam, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si Gyeonggi- do, Republic of Korea; Sergejs Isajevs, Petra Krike, Marcis Leja, University of Latvia, Latvia; Aurelio Cruz, Pilar Hernandez, Eduardo Lazcano, Jorge Salmerón, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Mexico City, Mexico; Wim Quint, Linda Struijk, Leen-Jan van Doorn, DDL Diagnostic Laboratory, Rijswijk, The Netherlands; Maria Liz Bobadilla, Nelly Maldonado, Veronica Villagra, Laboratorio Central Nacional, Asunción, Elena Kasamatsu, Laura Mendoza, María Isabel Rodríguez, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Asunción, Ana Soilan, COLPODIG, Asunción, Paraguay; Yenny Bellido, Gino Venegas, Liga Nacional de Lucha contra el Cáncer, Lima, Franco Doimi, Laboratorio Privado de Anatomía Patológica, Lima, Peru; Xavier Bosch, Xavier Castellsagué, Silvia de Sanjosé Llongueras, Institut Català d’Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain; Nathalie Broutet, André Ilbawi, WHO, Geneva, Pierre Vassilakos, Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland; Themba Ginindza, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Mabula Kasubi, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Yuma Safina, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dar es Salaam, John Theopista, WHO Country Office, United Republic of Tanzania; Robert Newton, MRC/UVRI, Uganda Research Unit, Uganda; Guillermo Rodríguez, Andrea Beracochea, Natalia Perez, Comisión Honoraria de Lucha contra el Cáncer, Montevideo, Uruguay; Maria Constanza Camargo, Michael Cook, Allan Hildesheim, Hormuzd A. Katki, Aimée R. Kreimer, Douglas R. Lowy, Charles Rabkin, Mark Schiffman, John T. Schiller, Diane Solomon, Sholom Wacholder, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Michael Chung, University of Washington, Seattle, Teresa Darragh, University of California, San Francisco, Jose Jerónimo, Global Coalition against Cervical Cancer, Virginia, Silvana Luciani, Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA.
The Screening Group (SCR) is grateful to the following for their collaboration:
Africa Miraldina da Ganda Manuel, Maternidade Lucrecia Paim, Luanda, Angola; Jean-Marie Dangou, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Division of Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, Brazzaville, Congo; Charles Gombe Mbalawa, Judith Malanda-Mfinga, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Congo; Beatrice Wiafe Addai, President, Breast Care International, Accra, Ghana; Namory Keita, Dr Koulibaly, CHU Donka, Conakry, Guinea; Siné Bayo, Amadou Dolo, Ibrahima Teguete, Hôpital G. Touré, Bamako, Mali; Shyam Sundar Manraj, National Cancer Control Programme, Port Louis, Mauritius; Maria Bennani, Rachid Bekkali, Youssef Chami, Ahmed Zidouh, The Lalla Salma Foundation Against Cancer, Rabat, Morocco; Loubna Abousselham, Latifa Belakhel, Ministère de la Santé, Rabat, Morocco; Chakib Nejjari, Faculty of Medicine of Fez, Morocco; Hassan Nouhou, Faculté des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Niamey, Niamey, Niger; Lynette Denny, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa; Greta Dreyer, University Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa; Twalib A. Ngoma, Ocean Road Cancer Institute, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania; Sharon Kapambwe, Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme, Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia; Groesbeck P. Parham, Leeya F. Pinder, UNC Global Projects, Lusaka, Zambia; Mike Chiranje, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Asia Zbys Fedorowicz, Cochrane Bahrain; Julie Sprakel, Think Pink Bahrain, Bahrain; Ashrafun Nessa, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Sathya Doraiswamy, Ayasha Siddiqua, UNFPA, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Jiang-Guo Chen, Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, Qidong, China; Youlin Qiao, Fanghui Zhao, Cancer Institute of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; Li Qing, University Hospital, Cheng Du, China; An-Ping Wang, Ping Wang, Shaanxi Province Cancer Hospital/Institute, Xian, China; Ala Alwan, Ibtihal Fadhil, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt; B.V. Bhat, Geeta Joshi, Rohini Patel, Janmesh Shah, R.K. Vyas, Gujarat Cancer and Research Institute, M.P. Shah Cancer Hospital, Ahmedabad, India; Pulikatil Okkaru Esmy, Anil Kumar, Vinod Joseph Mammen, Christian Fellowship Community Health Centre, Ambilikkai, India; M.K. Chauhan, Sanjay Hingmire, Kasturi Jayant, Sylla G. Malvi, Bhagwan M. Nene, Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Hospital, Barshi, India; S. Ramalingam, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore, India; V. Shanta, R. Swaminathan, K. Malliga, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, India; Gerard Selvam, Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project Cervical Screening Programme, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; Tanvir Kaur, India Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India; Ravi Mehrotra, Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology, New Delhi, India; S.K. Acharya, Neerja Bhatla, Shachi Vashist, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; N. Jayalatha, Usha Rani Reddy Poli, M.N.J. Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre, Hyderabad, India; Krishnanandha Pai, Malabar Cancer Care Society, Kannur, India; Ranajit Mandal, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata, India; Srabani Mittal, Child In Need Institute, Kolkata, India; Sutapa Biswas, Maqsood Sidiqqi, Cancer Foundation of India, Kolkata, India; Rosangluaia, Eric Zomawia, Civil Hospital Aizawl, Mizoram, India; Anita Gadgil, BARC Hospital, Mumbai, India; G.S. Joneja, Yogesh Verma, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim, India; Ravi Kannan, Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Silchar, India; Rajendra Badwe, Gauravi Mishra, Sharmila Pimple, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India; Uma Divate, Smita Joshi, Jehangir Clinical Development Centre (JCDC) Pvt. Ltd Jehangir Hospital
collaborators 147 Premises, Pune, India; Kirti Jain, Manoj Manahan, GBH Cancer Memorial Hospital, Udaipur, India; Devasena Anantharaman, S. Mohanan Nair, M. Radhakrishna Pillai, Priya Prabhu, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum, India; Paul Sebastian, Thara Somanathan, Beela Sara Mathew, Kunnambathu Ramadas, Ramani Wesley, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India; Dwiana Ocviyanti, Fitriyadi Kusuma, Indonesian Society of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy, Jakarta, Indonesia; Nada Alwan, Baghdad University Medical College, Bagdad, Iraq; Ryo Konno, Gynaecology Department, Jichi Medical School, Saitama, Japan; Harri Vainio, Faculty of Public Health, Kuwait; Alongkone Phengsavanh, Phouthone Sithideth, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic; M. Man Shrestha, B. Singh Karki, BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal; Surendra Shrestha, Nepal Network for Cancer Treatment and Research, Banepa, Nepal; Jyotsna Rimal, College of Dental Surgery, Dharan, Nepal; A.V. Laudico, Philippine Cancer Society, Manila, Philippines; Hai Rim Shin, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines; Kee-Seng Chia, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Swee Chong Quek, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore; Kanishka Karunaratne, G. Wijesuriya, National Cancer Institute, Sri Lanka; Nayana De Alwis, Suraj Perera, Sudath Samaraweera, National Cancer Control Programme, Sri Lanka; Weerawut Imsamran, Suleeporn Sangrajrang, National Cancer Institute, Thailand; Surathat Pongnikorn, Lampang Cancer Centre, Lampang, Thailand; Hutcha Sriplung, University of Songkhla, Songkhla, Thailand; Wachara Eamratsameekool, Phanomphrai Community Hospital, Roi Et, Thailand; Murat Tuncer, Murat Gültekin, National Cancer Control Programme, Turkey; Gokhan Tulunay, Serdar Yalvac, A. Nejat Ozgul, SB Ankara Etlik Maternity and Women’s Health Teaching Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey; Phan Thi Le Mai, UNFPA, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
Australia Newell Johnson, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Europe Nelly Enwerem-Bromson, IAEA, Vienna, Austria; Marc Arbyn, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium; Ian Magrath, International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research, Brussels, Belgium; Ahti Anttila, Finnish Cancer Registry, Helsinki, Finland; Christine Bergeron, Laboratoire Cerba, Cergy Pontoise, France; Gery Lamblin, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Bron, France; Monique Marien Sroussi, Lyon, France; Xavier Carcopino, Hôpital Nord, Service de Gynécologie, Marseille, France; Marc Bardou, Allan Lançon, CHU de Dijon, Dijon, France; Lutz Gissmann, Division of Genome Modifications and Carcinogenesis, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; Michael Pawlita, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany; Antonio Ponti, Guglielmo Ronco, Nereo Segnan, Carlo Senore, CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy; Silvia Deandrea, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; Joakim Dillner, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; Nathalie Broutet, Etienne Krug, Andreas Ullrich, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Peter Sasieni, Biostatistics and Cancer Epidemiology Group, Cancer Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre at Barts and The London Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, United Kingdom; Margaret Stanley, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Stephen W. Duffy, Cancer Research UK Center for Epidemiology, Mathematics and Statistics, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
North America Navami Naik, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, USA; Lisa Stevens, Ted Trimble, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA; Cindy Gauvreau, Prabhat Jha, Centre for Global Health Research, Canada; Susan E. Horton, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, Canada; André Ilbawi, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA; Paul Blumenthal, Lynne Gaffikin, San Francisco, USA; J. Jeronimo, Vivien Tsu, PATH, Seattle, Ben Anderson, University of Seattle, USA; Hellen Gelband, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington DC, USA; Silvana Luciani, Pan American Health Organization, Washington DC, USA.
South America Silvina Arrossi, Programme Manager, National Cervical Screening Programme, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Silvio Tatti, Faculty of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Jean Matos, Paulo Naud, Instituto de Prevenção do Câncer de Colo do Útero, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Luiz Antonio Santini, Walter Zoss, RINC/UNASUR, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Raúl Murillo, Centro Javeriano de Oncología, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia; Leticia Fernandez Garrote, Yaima Galan Alvarez, National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology, Havana, Cuba; Sarah Marjane, FIBUSPAM, Ecuador; Antonio L. Cubilla, Instituto de Patología e Investigación, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay; C.L. Santos, C.V. Sologuren, Instituto Especializado de Enfermedades Neoplásicas, Lima, Peru; Alvaro Luongo, Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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